Martyn Day

Martyn Day is AEC Magazine’s co-founder and consulting editor and has been writing about design and the business of CAD for close to 30 years. Everyone knows Martyn. He’s always the one asking the CAD software company CEOs the difficult questions. And the one carrying 17 different tech devices in his backpack.

CadFaster for iPad

Posted by - October 3, 2011
Having access to CAD models on a laptop is a business necessity. If you are truly mobile then you will need them on your Apple iPad and preferably be able…
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COFES 2005

Posted by - June 6, 2005
Each year in the desert of Arizona, the Computer Aided Design community gathers to talk about the future of engineering software at Cyon Research's unique event. Martyn Day was in…
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McNeel

Posted by - July 1, 2008
While many big CAD vendors wielding hefty corporate marketing budgets have come and gone in the past 20 years, small developer Robert McNeel & Associates has managed to carve out…
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Graphisoft ArchiCAD 15 p2

Posted by - October 1, 2011
Last issue AEC reviewed the new renovation tools in the latest release of ArchiCAD from Graphisoft. This month we conclude the review, highlighting the other functional improvements to the popular…
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Oasys MassMotion

Posted by - July 25, 2011
The benefits of 3D modelling on large projects are numerous, especially from using analysis and simulation. Arup’s development arm Oasys has an exciting new application for simulating individual pedestrians up…
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Autodesk: keeping it Real

Posted by - August 24, 2005
Autodesk recently made its DWG libraries available in a new format for developers and customers, allowing the opening and saving of AutoCAD drawings without the presence of AutoCAD.
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Autodesk University Report

Posted by - February 21, 2005
In November Autodesk held its annual User event, Autodesk University. With many of its customers now on subscription, the company was more forthcoming about its future plans than usual.
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Graphisoft ArchiCAD 15 p1

Posted by - July 26, 2011
Building Information Modelling (BIM) developers have mainly been concerned with providing tools to complete new build projects. In these challenging economic times of make do and mend, features for renovation…
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CADline MapThat

Posted by - May 27, 2011
Most companies now have multiple databases for customers, sales and project information, but keeping track of relational data can be difficult. CADline has a new product to visualise multiple databases…
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